my xtremely old pc

[TAT-P90]

when i bought my new pc (the one i use to play HL2) i gave my extremely old pc to my sister.

Before i formated the old one, it ran quite smoothly with its system:

200mhz pentium
64mb ram
some sound card
16mb 3dfx voodoo banshee DX7(max)
...

I used to play Ut on it and it used to work smoothly but now its all slow and skipping. the same goes to HL1. I mean i used to run them on 800x600 (ut medium skin and medium world)(HL1 well, high i guess) and smoothly, but now 512x324(something like that) butg with lots of frame drops and all.

I tryed everything and still is working lke shit. Can someone help me out on this???

I posted this thread because i want to challenge my brother in DM(HL1) and UT itself.

 

[giant384]

Holy Crap that is very old there really is no thing u can do to improve it except buying a new pc u can get one for like 400 bux and they will play those games fine

 

[DrDevin]

As always did you install drivers after reformatting? Make sure to install motherboard and videocard drivers or else you will be getting really bad framerates

 

[TAT-P90]

hmmm i guess its the motherboard driver that i never install. Also i dont have enough $$ to buy new one.

 

[DrDevin]

Yes the motherboard driver is really important in keeping a fast stable system. Many crashes are related to motherboard drivers so make sure to get the newest ones. Also I install the Mobo driver, then videocard. It is suppost to be more stable but I dont think it makes much of a difference.

 

[Dumb Dude]

Computers like that install the motherboard drivers themselves. I remeber my old HP computer would install all the sound, video and network drivers all on its own. It was even a clean install of XP and it came with ME. So I'm pretty sure that ain't the problem.